Consider the following data:
1. In the years since 2000, there have been less than 20 fatal bear attacks by bears of any species.
2. Verified coyote attacks on humans are rare with only a single known fatality.
3. In the US and Canada together, there is an average of about 4 mountain lion attacks per year.
4. 25 people were killed by domestic dogs in the US in 2006 and nearly 5 million were bitten.
5. In 2005, the most recent available data, nearly 17,000 people were murdered by other people.
yet all I get from your posts is a phobia of wild animals.
Consider the following data:
1. In the years since 2000, there have been less than 20 fatal bear attacks by bears of any species.
2. Verified coyote attacks on humans are rare with only a single known fatality.
3. In the US and Canada together, there is an average of about 4 mountain lion attacks per year.
4. 25 people were killed by domestic dogs in the US in 2006 and nearly 5 million were bitten.
5. In 2005, the most recent available data, nearly 17,000 people were murdered by other people.
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Consider the following data:
1. In the years since 2000, there have been less than 20 fatal bear attacks by bears of any species.
2. Verified coyote attacks on humans are rare with only a single known fatality.
3. In the US and Canada together, there is an average of about 4 mountain lion attacks per year.
4. 25 people were killed by domestic dogs in the US in 2006 and nearly 5 million were bitten.
5. In 2005, the most recent available data, nearly 17,000 people were murdered by other people.
I guess using great white hunter logic that you are deathly afraid of people
See, most people have more crackheads to worry about than they do grizzlies, it's that numbers thing again.
I think the real problem here is my threads are just more popular then yours and I have more post listed then you even though you joined earlier then I did.
I promise to try and not start so many popular threads....ok?
Can someone tell me when the Joe and Gunsmith show will be over.
Park visitors are encouraged to travel in groups and make noise so the bears can hear them coming and are not surprised.
I say we keep the bears, mountain lions, and wolves and start hunting them ourselves. The lions can be hunted now w/or w/out dogs. The bears and the wolves should be hunted as well. If the numbers have grown to the point where the abundance brings them that close to civilization on a regular basis then its maybe time to weed a few out.
The 80-acre farm I grew up on is now frequented by cougars. I say we send the bears, cougars and wolves to Connecticut !!
again, how do you know he was not stalked by the bear?
He could have been taking pics of a bear a mile away and this one came up from behind him.
Hopefully the next time he does this it will be with a telephoto lens with as much magnification as possible.He had been photographing wild bears in the park when a female with a cub lunged at him.